Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1887-05-28
For the Observer.
CHAPEL HILL WANTS A
HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

~complacently for many years and
have carefully noted the inertia OF
maDy places of our beloved State,
blessed by a showering hand OF
Providence. and yet they slumber in
the dreams Of old Grip Van Wrinkle
We live in a fast age, an age OF
invention and progress and those
will be left behind who do not keep
in the van, onward marching, swiftly
marching! How many places there
are in North Carolina, b%enignly ia
.ored with every natural advantage.
Of soil, OF climate, and of scenery,
yet undeveIoped: Yes, how many
spots On which some pioneering
fathers have trod aud here and there
planted their Ebenezer and made
their resting place in hopes that the
day would dawn some day there
upon an enlightened, ennobled and
christian people, where school houses
and academies would abound with
CONTINUOUS open doors and churches
erected with p%innacles reaching high
up in the heavens. But it is a sad
tale to chronicle. With some of
these places, they have remained as
God LETT them with others, a start
my and a stopping, having reached
a goal tar ascendlng-much ahead OF
the fathers 4; then again with others,
The bible teaches progressiveness
Juimtly, they say, and that progress
aud religion go hand in hand and
hence some advance must be made.
Then the indonltable lazy action
puts in with a suail like movement
on a piIgilmmage of a century.
LII reviewing this matter Of fact
picture, it ecu to one that man in
many Instances has apparently ig
nored the many natural advantages
Of location, O. health and comfort
and took refuge to those least con
duclye. Such seems to be the CASE
with many OF our towns aud cities
yet wi,hal, they are living bnmar
~menageries, we'll equipped and ul
u NOAbSS olA ChIllIIS tuS
hermit-like and unprogressive Older
towns whose inhabitants live in The
past and in the future only, to avail
an imaginary apocalyptic vision O
tasoriug miracle.
We live i'll an enlightened era ant
: such an one that will awaken man,
of our older towns from ,hei
lelhargy aud rouse them to duty
SO that hencefo,th to know a towl
: or city in our State will be to know
that the n is vielng with the otheI
:, III all that GO TO make up grea
! and good and happy people.
Chapel Hill wants a school TO
girls. Here, are some OF the in
y ducemnts: 1t Is situate on one o
the most desirable spots iu the Stat
--environed by hills and valleys
with saluhrious and bracing cllma,
pure waters-1ree rom epidemic
malaria and the hideous forms q
diseases, aud sickness has no sorrow
lng-tew doctors, but those skille,
n III their protession-lawyers impo,
erlshed for lack of POO il
habitants-well governed-ra,lsoa
= and telegraphlc COMMUNICATIONS
stoIes crowded WITH choice and 81
Iect goods, cheap-hotels aud boar,
ing houses abound-llbrar,es chocl
ed full OF se'ect literary and sciel
y tftic works-soclety pr erceiience-
a crop OF young ladies unsurpasse
o in beauty and excellence, yet ne
st enough to supply demand, (th
II young men beng seriously 10 tb
majority, 10 to L. (Wnh such
t. poor showing, it makes one feel, OF
n that | could I've owe again and tai
n. eve a cleaners chance, 90. IN
a. souI.') Here Is located ,he Unive
5. sity--uear, is Pune Grove Ma
Academy (Andrews)--churches
Il all the leading denominations in II
State, &c. But, alas! Chapel Hi
has no school tor girls. | pause
pen 1t. There is not a better opet
re ing any where for such a school.
'e has 4 number OF matrons and your
" ladies adopts in teaching 10 beg
with, bu, the opening invites ar
young lady we'll qualified and th
re comes well recommended" The
Il are plenty of young ladies' here a,
H. nereabouls others would readl
III come from abroad. Board is che.
and accommodations splendid,
With al! these advantages aud r
sources, who will make the break
- Shall Chapel Hill have the school
We will see. NJ.